Leeds Hospitals Charity

Registered charity 1170369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536932 · also known as LEEDS CARES, LEEDS HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

To further any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the general or any specific purposes of Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust or the purposes of the National Health Service.

Objects

(A) TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE NHS TRUST OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE; (B) TO PROMOTE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC; AND(C) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH INCLUDING BY ENGAGING IN AND SUPPORTING MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £519,000 for the year, resulting in a 2% decrease in total funds to £20.6 million. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £4.05 million, which is below the trustees' stated target of £5 million. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months from the date of approval.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• How to donate to the Leeds Hospitals Charity Play Appeal yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk · 06/10/2026
• Kevin Sinfield with Lindsey Burrow High res (credit Leeds Hospitals Charity) news.leeds.gov.uk · 12/06/2026
• Leeds Hospitals Charity volunteers create moments that matter yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk · 02/06/2026
• Leeds Hospitals Charity opens its new concept shop on The Grove ilkleychat.co.uk · 26/11/2025
• New Director of Grants and Impact Appointed for Leeds Hospitals Charity yorkshirepost.co.uk · 15/05/2025
• Leeds Hospitals Charity opens new shop on Horsforth Town Street westleedsdispatch.com · 13/05/2025
• Giving the gift of Christmas: Supporting Leeds Hospitals Charity graham.co.uk · 20/12/2024
• Giving the gift of Christmas: Supporting Leeds Hospitals Charity graham.co.uk · 20/12/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10492128
• Trading subsidiary: LHC ENTERPRISE LIMITED Companies House 13438357

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leeds Hospitals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Esther Wakeman — Chief Executive (source)
• Eve Hartrick — Director of Finance & Corporate Services (source)
• Jake Hornsbury — Director of Retail (source)
• Rebecca Baldaro-Booth — Director of Grants and Impact (source)
• Sarah Griffin — Director of Engagement (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Breast Cancer Support — “Breast Cancer Support has donated more than £46,000 in funding to support a pioneering digital health project aimed at improving care for pa…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FEARE, Leicia Louise — director, appointed 23/11/2025on trustee list
• GRAY, Simon Andrew — director, appointed 23/11/2025on trustee list
• ALI, Razwan, Dr — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• COLMAN, David John — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• KILDARE, Antony Patrick — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• SURYAWANSHI, Lalit — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• LYONS, Charlene — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• SKELLEY, Gemma Lucy — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• GLAISTER, Lauren Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/09/2021on trustee list
• BERRIDGE, David, Dr — director, appointed 14/06/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Mark Craig — director, appointed 03/06/2021on trustee list
• DOHERTY, Cassandra, Dr — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• OADE, Yvette Alison, Dr — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 57.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony Kildare
• CHARLENE LYONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• David John Colman
• Dr Cassandra DOHERTY
• Dr David BERRIDGE
• Dr Razwan Ali
• Dr Yvette OADE
• Gemma Lucy SKELLEY
• Lalit SURYAWANSHI
• Lauren GLAISTER
• Leicia Louise Feare
• Mark Davies
• Simon Andrew Gray

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• CHARLENE LYONS — trustee here and at THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE TRUST AND RELATED CHARITIES.

• LEEDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE TRUST AND RELATED CHARITIES income £26k
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k
• LEEDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £383k
• LEEDS CITY MISSION income £59k
• 2104 CHARITY FOUNDATION income £15k
• THE LINDEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £92k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.